Since Apple is changed in 2006 with the Mac and Mac OS X on Intel processors, you can run other operating systems such as Windows or Linux without any problems on the Mac. Many new customers have used in recent years this way, who first bought a Mac to get as comfortable on an Apple computer. This option of Apple Macintosh can be quite as the flexibleste computer call that ruled the execution of all today’s major operating systems. As second operating system using Apple boot camp to install Windows or any other operating system in principle several of the ways Windows on an Apple Mac. Apple itself does boot camp a free solution with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard out. This solution allows the installation of Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 on another hard disk partition as a second operating system.
When you start the computer, the user can select whether to start Mac OS X or Windows. Decides the user for the launch of Windows, the Microsoft operating system as well as on a standard Windows PC is started. The advantage of this solution: The hardware of the Apple computer can be addressed directly by Windows so that it can run on the Mac with maximum speed. Also, the graphics card is directly addressed under boot camp Windows and works accordingly with maximum possible performance. The drawback of boot camp is that only an operating system at the same time can run, so either Mac OS X or Windows. On the Windows side can with Board funds only on the Windows partition of the hard disk be accessed – access on the Mac partition from Windows is possible only with third-party software. The use of the free with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard shipped Bootcamp is recommended especially if it arrives on a high compute or graphics performance on Windows.
